25th Children’s Peace Drawings Competition:
Many Wonderful Entries Submitted |
On December 18 (Sat), 2010, the awards ceremony for the Children's Peace
Drawing Competition was held in Memorial Hall at Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Museum. This competition started in 1986, with the aim of raising children's
awareness of peace, and last marked the 25th time it has been held. A total of 5,936 drawings were sent in: 4,349 works
from 132 elementary and junior high schools in the Hiroshima City area,
and 1,587 works from eight other countries (Canada, China, Korea, Russia,
America, Australia, France and India).
The awards ceremony was attended by 34 of those who won Excellence and
Distinction Awards, and the winners received an award certificate and a
commemorative plaque.
After the awards ceremony, a tape-cutting ceremony for the opening of
the exhibition was held in Exhibition Room 5, of Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Museum, by those who won Excellence Awards. The exhibition continued until
January 31 (Mon) , 2011. On display were three drawings that won the Excellence
Award, 39 drawings that won the Distinction Award, and 120 drawings that
won the Award of Merit, making a total of 162 works on display.
Chiemi Higuchi, a fourth-year student at Hiroshima Municipal Bairin Elementary
School, who won the Excellence Award in the Elementary School division
for her drawing of children with folded paper cranes, said, "I'm very
happy that I won the Excellence Award. I drew the picture because I hope
that we can build a peaceful world by showing to the people of the world
paper cranes with our smiling faces". In the Junior High School division,
Chihiro Fukunaga, a second-year student at Hiroshima Municipal Tomo Junior
High School, won the Excellence Award in the Junior High Schools division
for her drawing of rusting nuclear weapons in a forest. She said "I
drew this with the hope that one day nuclear weapons will be abolished,
and their very existence will be forgotten. Next year will be the last
chance to participate in this competition. I want to try hard so that I
can come here again".
The names and the drawings of those who won the Excellence and Distinction
Awards, and the names of those who won the Award of Merit, can be viewed
in the "Kid's Peace Station" section of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum web site |
Excellence Award (Elementary Schools division):
Chiemi Higuchi,
4th year, Hiroshima Municipal Bairin Elementary School
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Excellence Award (Junior High Schools division):
Chihiro Fukunaga,
2nd year, Hiroshima Municipal Tomo Junior High School |
Excellence Award (Overseas division):
Kim Yeonwoo,
Daegu Siji Elementary School (Korea) |
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(Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Outreach Division)
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